TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chidester,David
TI  - Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion
SN  - 9780226117577
AV  - BL2463 .E475 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Africa
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Religion
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Preface; 1. Expanding Empire; 2. Imperial, Colonial, and Indigenous; 3. Classify and Conquer; 4. Animals and Animism; 5. Myths and Fictions; 6. Ritual and Magic; 7. Humanity and Divinity; 8. Thinking Black; 9. Spirit of Empire; 10. Enduring Empire; Notes; Index; 2; b
N2  - How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with eit
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